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Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Fukushima Disaster Response Timeline -- Principal Figures in the Fukushima Disaster Response -- Station Blackout -- A State of Nuclear Emergency Declared -- Hydrogen Explosion -- Pumping in Seawater -- The Day of Reckoning -- Integrated Response Office -- Resident Evacuation -- The Last Bastion -- The Hyper Rescue Squad -- Operation Tomodachi (Friends) -- Yokosuka Shock -- The Hosono Process -- Worst-Case Scenario -- SPEEDI -- Planned Evacuation Area -- Castle Lost in a Day -- Epilogue: "The Mercy of the Gods -- Notes -- Interviewee List -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.

This cutting edge collection examines Japan?s population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan?s social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy. Considering the failures of past Japanese policies from the perspective of population, national land, and politics, it argues that the inability of past administrations to develop a long-term and comprehensive policy has exacerbated the population crisis. This text identifies key negative chain reactions that have stemmed from this policy failure, notably the effect of population decline on future economic growth and public finances and the impact of shrinking municipalities on social and community infrastructure to support quality of life. It also highlights how population decline can precipitate inter-generational conflict, and impact on the strength of the state and more widely on Japan?s international status. Japan is on the forefront of the population problem, which is expected to affect many of the world?s advanced industrial economies in the 21st century. Based on the study of policy failures, this book makes recommendations for effective population policy? covering both?mitigation? measures to encourage a recovery in the depopulation process as well as?adaptation? measures to maintain and improve living standards? and provides key insights into dealing with the debilitating effects of population decline.

Intro -- Preface -- Book Description -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 No Time to Lose -- 1.2 Four "Negative Chain Reactions" -- 1.2.1 Risk that Population Decline Will Push Down Economic Growth and Shatter Public Finances -- 1.2.2 Risk that Population Decline Will Disrupt the Infrastructure of Daily Life -- 1.2.3 Risk that Population Decline Will Intensify Intergenerational Conflict -- 1.2.4 Risk that the State of the Nation and Its Power Will Be Debilitated, Lowering Japan's International Status -- 1.3 A Conflict of Values -- 1.3.1 Which Should Take Precedence: Economic Superpower or Per Capita Income? -- 1.3.2 "Mitigation" of or "Adaptation" to Population Decline? -- 1.3.3 To Set a Birth Rate Target (Plus Population Target) or Not? -- 1.3.4 Are Overseas Workers a Benefit or a Cost? -- 1.3.5 Tokyo or the Regions? -- 1.3.6 Intergenerational Benefits and Burdens -- 1.4 Book Layout -- References -- Chapter 2: The Greater Tokyo Shock -- 2.1 "We'll Be a Marginal Estate in Ten Years' Time" -- 2.2 The Shrinking Metropolis -- 2.3 Vacant Houses, Marginal Apartments, Consumer Refugees -- 2.3.1 Vacant Homes on the Rise -- 2.3.2 "Marginal Apartments" Emerge -- 2.3.3 No More Schools -- 2.3.4 Public Transportation More Inconvenient -- 2.3.5 "Consumer Refugees" Emerge -- 2.4 Communities in Collapse -- 2.5 Rising Numbers of Residents over 75 in Greater Tokyo -- 2.6 "Marginalization" Increases Even in Central Tokyo -- 2.7 Greater Osaka Becomes the World's First Degenerating Megacity -- 2.8 Greater Nagoya's Bottleneck-Linear Trains and Few Female Workplaces -- 2.9 Sapporo and Fukuoka Absorb Their Surrounding Populations -- References -- Chapter 3: A Collapse in Regional Infrastructure -- 3.1 Expanding "Uninhabited Zones" -- 3.2 The Reality of a Shrinking Population

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Japan's International Agenda for the 1990s -- 1. Japan's Security Policy in the 1990s -- 2. Technology and the Setting for Japan's Agenda -- 3. U.S.-Japan Macroeconomic Policy Coordination: Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond -- 4. Rule Maker of World Trade: Japan's Trade Strategy and the World Trading System -- 5. Japan's Role in Economic Cooperation and Direct Foreign Investment -- 6. Japan's International Agenda: Structural Adjustments -- Contributors -- Index

Despite grand visions of a cosmopolitan planet living in peace, the first globalization at the turn of the 20th century descended into World War I as the old empires scrambled to preserve themselves as others sought self‐determination. Powers on the losing end of that war reasserted themselves in yet another worldwide calamity within decades.After World War II, in the early 1950s, with the victorious American‐led alliance in the driver's seat, institutions such as the United Nations and the Bretton Woods arrangements created a global stability that enabled peace, prosperity and the "rise of the rest."In 2014, the world order is shifting again with the rise of China reviving in Asia the very kind of nationalist rivalries that led Europe to war twice in the 20th century.Will we be able to build new institutions that accommodate the new powershift without resorting to war, or will the second globalization collapse as well? Top strategists from the US, Japan and China respond to this momentous question.

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